Real Capital Analytics (RCA), a New York-based commercial real estate research firm, points to Great Atlantic Management , an owner based in Virginia Beach, Va., who RCA says had a massive, 19-property, 4,000-unit portfolio of Virginia properties on the market at press time.

But Thypin isn’t necessarily ready to declare just yet that there’s a thaw in portfolio offerings. As of press time, neither RCA nor New York-based Reis —companies that track apartment transactions—had seen enough large deal activity to declare a trend.

“As for portfolios coming to market, anecdotally, I would have to agree, but I think we need to wait until the end of the quarter to give out any definitive numbers,” Thypin says.

Ben Carlos Thypin

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